He really believes his own press, that he is the saviour of teams facing the drop. It will be really interesting to see what happens when we reach "safety" in his eyes. Will he push on and try and secure a 7th (dizzy heights in his world), or will he then start experimenting with youth and untried tactics and end up nearer 17th, (his comfort zone).

In the very very unlikely scenario of him being sacked, how much will that cost? Was he muted to be on 9m for 18 months? So come the summer, when he has 12 months of his contract left, will he be due 6m?

On Walsh, does any one known how he is employed, is it a contract for a specific term?

Is he not the saviour of teams facing the drop? Has he not repeatedly done that? The actual well documented truth is he hates his own press

Honestly, theres a massive disconnect between expectations on here around the chances of SA being fired and the reality.

He was already talking yesterday about making plans for next season.

There is no appetite at the top of the club to fire SA if meets or exceeds their expectations. Which he will.

...............he's hardly likely to say he won't be here next season so no point in planning . All the same ,I'm pretty sure SA will be gone . I'm sure he was brought in as a stopgap but wouldn't accept a contract of less than 18 months.

Given our away form, I think I'd much rather have Leicester's run in (5 homes, 3 aways against teams below them) than ours (3 homes, 5 aways against teams below us). Think we'll need to pick up a couple of away wins if we're to stand a chance of 7th personally.

Given our away form, I think I'd much rather have Leicester's run in (5 homes, 3 aways against teams below them) than ours (3 homes, 5 aways against teams below us). Think we'll need to pick up a couple of away wins if we're to stand a chance of 7th personally.

Yea, if we can't win a couple away games we won't reach 7th.

I would think we should be playing just about the same team we did yesterday even away from home to give us a chance. No sense changing everything all over again for each away in an attempt to stumble upon a successful away formation/tactics.

Watford, Burnley, Brighton and Stoke as next four we should be aiming for a minimum of 6 points from those. If we've learnt anything from the West Brom and Bournemouth games it's that we need to focus on our own game away from home and not chop and change to cater for teams who don't have as much quality as we have. We undoubtedly will though.

yes they were wrong not to send him out in the summer and he was wrong not to go to Derby , so the way he has been handled was not right so you spot on there

Yeah how dare he show enthusiasm or belief in himself going abroad...cheeky bastard .Does he not know it's the shithouse way or the highway ...I mean yes his manager worked with some of the best .....oh wait scratch that some of the shittest clubs in the premiership ....and has a 100% record at international level ...all 1 games of it .

Watford, Burnley, Brighton and Stoke as next four we should be aiming for a minimum of 6 points from those. If we've learnt anything from the West Brom and Bournemouth games it's that we need to focus on our own game away from home and not chop and change to cater for teams who don't have as much quality as we have. We undoubtedly will though.

Yeah how dare he show enthusiasm or belief in himself going abroad...cheeky bastard .Does he not know it's the shithouse way or the highway ...I mean yes his manager worked with some of the best .....oh wait scratch that some of the shittest clubs in the premiership ....and has a 100% record at international level ...all 1 games of it .

I will leave it up to you to count the mins he get on the pitch then and what the fuck has it do to with his managers record with England or clubs he has been at before you are Big Sam in the head get over it (if a dog shit on your doorstep you would find away for putting on Sam )

Watford, Burnley, Brighton and Stoke as next four we should be aiming for a minimum of 6 points from those. If we've learnt anything from the West Brom and Bournemouth games it's that we need to focus on our own game away from home and not chop and change to cater for teams who don't have as much quality as we have. We undoubtedly will though.

We should be 'aiming' for 12 points from those. We won't get 12, but theres not a game there we shouldnt be going out to win.